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I would try contacting design agencies, magazine publishers and printers. The more people you contact (out of the blue) with a decent CV and portfolio - stressing your skills (which do seem to be lacking in many young designers) the more chance you have of getting suitable work. Alternatively...

There is a place for both. If you have requirements for special papers/board (even Conqueror), or Pantone colours, or unusual sizes (I have a client with odd sized business cards), or a specialist finish, or a host of other things that mark out a piece of print as being different - then you...

Is your problem that you want all round bleed on your flyer? And you are trying to print on a desktop or office printer? Certainly in my considerable experience laser printers always have a border - a gripper edge that keep the paper from winding round the printer drum. If you are running more...

There is a site called Whatthefont (other sites are available) which will help identify unknown fonts. They even have 'experts/nerds' who will identify from a scanned image for you. Very good to use. There are so many fronts nowadays I don't imagine that many people change them much. Hope this helps

Very helpful! Thanks

I had this a short while back from a client : "The attached flyer is the one I mentioned last week. If you are prepared to create logo for free he will be ordering these this week. I do think it's worth you considering as I believe he will be successful and this will mean lots of printing of...

Regarding the license (arghh - licence) how will it work for a client's client... (I'm not working for the end-user) seems to be a yearly thing...

I need to build a form in Wordpress for a client that has lots of fields. I have tried Caldera Forms but I can't get it to work properly. Does anyone use a, preferably, drag and drop form builder that will produce good looking forms and then actually works when it is filled out?!

Hi all - been out of the loop for a while but working quietly in the background. But a new client has asked me to design a poster … they supplied the image and the words I sent back a design and they came back with the fact that they wanted " more of a contemporary feel" and "feel the colours...

Try a plan printer - they might have a drafting film… quick Google and up came the name Pinders…. worth a phone call.

Zanders and Arjo Wiggins both used to do Translucent papers in a variety of weights. Or G F Smith might be worth trying. If you are in contact with a paper merchant they would be worth sounding out.

Good to hear the update Dave. This looks like a case of unfair dismissal if they've got rid of you while you are sick...I know you're probably thinking 'Good riddance to bad rubbish...' The only way to progress is to push yourself beyond your comfort zone - or as a friend says 'Wash the dirty...

Are they full colour? 2 colour? 1 colour? Single sided, double-sided? I can put you in touch with the right print company! Or maybe your clients would consider silk to be uncoated!

You shouldn't need to have coated stock in order to laminate successfully...? I'm certain I've done it in the past on something like an Ivory board...(but I could be wrong!)

A local printer with a small perfect binding machine...sadly I don't know anyone who has one (I used to be able to do it - but that's not much help!). You could get it digitally printed and 'perfect bind' it yourself into the cover using pva. That would be the cheapest. It wouldn't stand up...